Category Archives: Daily News

The government appears to have got its Digital India approach right. It’s imperative that it does so, given that theRs.1.3 trillion programme envisages a plethora of e-governance services across sectors like healthcare, education and banking, and promises to introduce transparency in the system, reduce corruption and achieve inclusive growth.

The Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world. It originally appears each week on Global Voices Advocacy. Mahsa Alimardani, Ellery Roberts Biddle, Weiping Li, Hae-in Lim, James Propa, Elizabeth Rivera, and Sarah Myers West contributed to this report. Maps that label geographic areas of…

Internet trolls have become a part, an indelible part, of our millennial, tech-savvy lives. Originally known as the mythical, ugly cave-dwelling creature; a ‘troll’ has almost become the modern-equivalent of an omnipresent, hard-to-ignore monster. And nowhere more so than on Twitter.

The Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) has suggested to the Law Commission to modify the India Succession Act, 1925 and include the transgender individuals in its provisions. Christian transgender people would now be given equal rights with cisgender men and women over ancestral property. “The entire Christian Committee agreed. We are hopeful that this will be…

The rural administrative scenario of India especially the administration of Panchyati Raj Institutions across the nation is marked by both successful innovations and practices in public service delivery as well as a number of pathetic performances. The General weakness of accountability mechanisms is an impediment to improving service delivery system for the rural poor in…

Remember the famous line from the movie Eraser, “Relax, you’ve just been erased.”? How would you like that to come true? What if every single bit of your life is suddenly deleted? A Delhi-based banker has asked for just that — the ‘right to to be forgotten’ online. Upset after details of his marital dispute,…

Over the top (OTT) has come up in a big way in India. The technology that refers to the delivery of audio and video over the internet, has opened up a completely new way for operators to generate revenue from VoD, catch-up TV, and interactive applications. In an exclusive interaction with CXOtoday, Vincent Low, Director, Product Marketing, Media, Akamai…

There were 337,922 crimes against women reported in India in 2014. That’s over 900 crimes a day, or around one every two minutes. The country’s government hopes to battle this problem with technology. Officials announced on Monday that all mobile phones sold in the country from January 2017 will need to be kitted out with…

The Indian government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has grown increasingly focused on giving more people access to the Internet, but the majority of the country’s citizens are still offline. Nearly 1 billion people in India are yet to connect to the Internet,according to a World Bank report. As of 2014, India’s population was…